AEHF Communications Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

Lead systems engineering analysis for requirement trades, design and integration trades, end-to-end performance analysis, and identifying risk mitigation approaches
Lead and identify major uncertainties associated with systems architectures, defining risks and opportunities associated with the uncertainties.
Communicate work program uncertainties, risks and opportunities with department/division leadership and Sponsors
Lead the development, decomposition, and review of system requirements
Lead requirements management, interface management and architecture change management processes
Translate analysis results into actionable recommendations for the US Government agencies

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Active Secret Clearence with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD TS/SCI clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Lead technical quality efforts and development of technical quality standards within Nuclear Enterprise with technical focus in the Nuclear Enterprise mission area especially in digital communications for AEHF satellite comms, HF, VLF systems
• Proficient at communicating complex technical material in presentations and in writing.
• Experience leading, planning, executing, and presenting complex trade studies.
• Experience in systems engineering with expertise across the development lifecycle from concept development, through requirements definition, system development and integration, and verification.
• Experience working with multiple engineering disciplines to provide solutions to complex problems that require unified software, hardware, mechanical and reliability approaches while balancing cost and schedule constraints.
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate across multiple organizations and engineering disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with ESS SATCOM.
• Experience with leading capabilities trade analysis, mission analysis, information assurance, systems integration, and understanding of the relationships between operational, technical, and system’s architecture for AEHF SATCOM.
• Familiarity with evaluation of RF communications.
• Possess a current/active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance are preferred.
• Experience with multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and/or operational-level).
• Documented success applying modern systems engineering methods including MBSE.
• Experience with leading system integration and testing (HW/SW) of COTS components for prototyping.
• Familiarity with Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) and the nuclear environment.

Onsite Requirement

This position requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Secret

Annual Compensation Range and Midpoint

$173,200 - $216,500 - $259,800

Work Location Type

Onsite